Aya F. Khalaf

This paper develops a no-report tactile paradigm using eye tracking to detect conscious tactile perception without behavioral reports, finding that pupil dilation and blinking distinguish perceived from unperceived stimuli.

This study investigates the neural mechanisms underlying awareness of action by comparing aware and unaware actions, identifying both immediate and long-term neural correlates.

This study identifies brainstem and thalamus lesions as necessary and sufficient for coma in acute ischemic stroke, highlighting lesion location over volume in coma pathogenesis.

The paper investigates impaired consciousness in temporal lobe seizures, finding that bilateral spread is not required, onset side has no effect, and specific EEG patterns predict impaired consciousness with high accuracy.

This paper improves multimodal EEG-fTCD brain-computer interfaces using FBCSP and envelope features, achieving high classification accuracies for motor imagery and mental rotation tasks.

The paper investigates shared subcortical arousal systems across sensory modalities during attention modulation using fMRI data from 1,561 participants.

The paper investigates neural activity during auditory conscious perception and finds similar cortical and subcortical network patterns to those observed in visual perception.

The paper investigates attentional blink as a selective control mechanism in conscious perception using behavioral and neurophysiological measures.

A preregistered multimodal neuroimaging study across 256 human participants directly tests Integrated Information Theory against Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, confirming some predictions while revealing major empirical challenges for both.

The paper investigates neuronal activity patterns in a rodent model of absence seizures, finding decreased overall firing with distinct neuronal activity patterns during seizures.

This study identifies neural mechanisms of human conscious visual perception using report-independent methods and shows involvement of large-scale subcortical and cortical networks.

This study investigates early neural activity changes associated with visual conscious perception using intracranial EEG recordings and identifies gamma power dynamics in a distributed cortical network.